Chandigarh, 11/6:A day after losing the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana due to cross-voting, the Congress cracked the whip and expelled its legislator Kuldeep Bishnoi from all party positions. The Haryana Congress has alleged that Bishnoi, an MLA from the Adampur constituency in Hisar, did not vote for the party candidate Ajay Maken…
Kolkata, 11/6: The West Bengal government on Saturday suspended internet services in parts of Murshidabad district till June 14 to stop the spread of misinformation following violence in Howrah, where such a clampdown is already in force. Internet services have been suspended in Beldanga 1 block covering Beldanga Police Station area and Beldanga…
Kolkata, 11/6:BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar was arrested on Saturday afternoon when he was on the way to violence-hit Howrah district, police said. Majumdar, the MP of Balurghat in Uttar Dinajpur, was arrested near the toll plaza on Vidyasagar Setu, they said. “Mr Majumdar was trying to travel to Howrah…
Nayagarh, 11/6:At least four persons were charred to death and another received serious burn injuries when an oil tanker exploded after falling off a bridge in Odisha’s Nayagarh district, about 100 km from here, police said on Saturday. The oil tanker was on its way from Paradip to Sambalpur when it hit the…
New Delhi, 11/6: The family of dismissed BJP leader Naveen Jindal has left Delhi following a death threat. Jindal was dismissed from the BJP after controversy erupted over his remark against Prophet Mohammed which was in support of suspended party BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s statement also against the Prophet. The dismissed leader…
New Delhi, 11/6: Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Randeep Surjewala and Jairam Ramesh of the Congress and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut were among the 16 candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha from four states where polling was held on Friday after tussle over cross voting and alleged breach of election rules delayed the…
Mumbai, 10/6: The BJP on Friday accused three MLAs of the ruling coalition MVA in Maharashtra and two of the opposition Congress in Haryana of “compromising and vitiating” the Rajya Sabha poll process in their states by openly displaying ballot papers and urged the Election Commission to cancel their votes. A BJP delegation,…
Islamabad, 10/6:Pakistan’s former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf is critical and on a ventilator support at a hospital in the UAE, his close aide and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday. Gen. Musharraf, 78, ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008. “Musharraf is critical as he is on a ventilator,” Chaudhry…
New Delhi, 10/6: State-owned CIL on Friday floated two medium-term tenders for sourcing 6 million tonnes (MT) of coal from overseas, a move aimed at securing domestic fuel supplies amid the fear of shortage during monsoon. These two tenders for a total of 6 million tonnes coal have an option of increasing the…
New Delhi, 10/5: Amazon.com Inc is planning to withdraw from a heated competition for the rights to stream Indian Premier League cricket matches, according to people familiar with the matter, ceding one of the world’s most popular sporting contests to rivals from Walt Disney Co. to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. The rights…
